Oh no, my glider has crashed landed!

On a rainy 25th of November, Room 7 had an awesome time making our own gliders out of cardboard!

First, I asked Salome if I could get a sheet of cardboard to use for my glider. I grabbed my pencil, ruler and an eraser. I used both the ruler and the pencil to draw the lines for the shape of the wings, tailplane, fuselage and the stabilizer. Kevin kept telling me that I was taking a very long and that I should just take it to Miss Chao, but I ignored him because I wanted to see if I could do it by myself. I used the eraser because some of my lines weren't the right length. However, I ran out of time when I was cutting the wing because the bell rang for morning tea.

Later, when we came back from our fun morning tea, I quickly went to my cardboard and continued to cut my cardboard pieces out. 10 minutes later, I had cutting out all the pieces for my glider so I started taping my fuselage and the wings together. It took me a long time because I tried to angle my wings in an anhedral position. I cut a straight line inside my tailplane and slid the back part of the fuselage through it. I used a lot of tape and stuck it to the symmetrical parts where it was unstable. After five minutes of getting my glider ready, I went to the cloak bay to try out my glider.

When I was in the cloak bay, people kept coming to the cloak bay and interrupting me during my investigation. I asked them to come to where I was quickly so we can each have time to fly our gliders. I threw my glider in the air, but it was hit the walls and crash landed dramatically on the ground. It reached a length of 4.4 on the measuring tape. After that  I went back to the class and added blu-tack to the front of my glider for weight. I went back to the cloak bay and flew it again. This time it stalled in the air and it landed without hitting the walls and it reached 5.4 on the measuring tape.When I came back in, Miss Chao said that we had to make a glider using only tape and a small amount of straws. When I was making the glider, we had to pack up because it was time for lunch so we said bye to Salome and Siliga (the artists from Art Space who has been helping us with our topic this term).

Making our own gliders was splendid! I wish we had time to make another glider. My favourite part of the day was when we had the opportunity to fly our gliders!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate adjectives to describe the art lesson that we had on Thursday.

Sanding wood is hard!

On Thursday 11th of November, Room 7 had a great time taking the pieces out for our glider and sanding it to make it smooth!

First we scored our pieces of the wood. It was very hard because the craft knife kept going out of the sharpie marker line. Scoring the back wings of the wood was very hard because the 1.5 millimetre wood was very fragile and it was very hard to keep the cutting line straight. After I completed scoring my pieces of wood, I put the blade through the lines so the piece that I had split would fall out. It took me a very long time because I was being very careful so that my pieces of wood would not split. 10 minutes later, I heard a crack and my piece of wood started splitted along the side.

Next, I  to Salome and asked her for what to do next. That was when I noticed my classmates were smoothing out their pieces of balsa wood. So I asked Salome and she gave me sandpaper too. Salome gave a sheet of sandpaper to use for sanding my pieces. It was rough and black, but rubbery on the other side. I quickly took the sandpaper and started sanding the pieces. It was a bit hard because the wood was very rough around the edges and the and the sandpaper kept slipping off the fuselage's side. However I had to wait for Tristan because I needed the craft knife to cut a part of the fuselage that wasn't split yet.

After I smoothed out all the pieces out all the pieces the pieces of wood, I swiftly smoothed the fin, but it snapped in two like a cracker so I had to start again. When I finished carefully smoothing out the fin, it was time to pack up because it was the beginning of morning tea. Soon we had to say goodbye to Salome and we had to clean up as fast as the wind, then went out to play outside.

Getting our pieces ready for glueing was awesome! I wish we had more time so we could have started piecing them together. My favourite part of the day was sanding and getting our pieces ready for piecing together.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate adjectives to describe the art lesson that we had on Thursday.

Oh no, my bow broke!

On Thursday 6th of August, Room 7 had a great time gathering the materials for our sport sculpture.

First, we had to make a presentation that included these questions:

• What sport are you presenting?
• Why did you choose this sport?
• What are the rules?
• Which New Zealand team is doing this sport?
• And what is one technique for your sport?

It took me a long time to write the rules since some of the sites I searched from, gave different informations about the sport I was researching for (which was archery). My group and I worked together to share the data we collected from different sites. While we were looking for more data for archery, I looked up different techniques for archery. I just found out that there were different types of draws so I wrote down the techniques which I thought would be useful for our presentation.

After I finished my presentation, Salome, our art teacher, let me start on my bow sculpture. I followed the diagram which our group drew.  I needed to change some parts and pieces from the plan like the riser which on the plan was made of straw. I had to change it into a twirly piece of cardboard. I asked Miss Chao to help me glue the stick of cardboard onto the milk bottle (which was used as a grip). There was a problem when the glue connected the piece of cardboard to the milk bottle, it started to bend a bit so I had to rip it off and glue it again using the hot glue gun and  with the help of Salome. This time, I used a popsicle stick but it broke apart because it wasn’t sturdy enough. Unfortunately, it was nearly home time so I had to leave my unfinished project behind, helped  tidy up the classroom before we  said our ‘karakia’.

Getting to work on our sculptures was amazing yet challenging. But I am determined not to give up until I have produced my sculpture. I wish though that  our bow didn’t break apart while we were working on it because this means that we will have to re-do it, yet again.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the appropriate language features in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use past tense verbs to describe our Thursday art lesson.

Have you ever played tennis before?

Learning intention: We are learning to write a recount. 
Success criteria: I know can do this when I use blabberize to record about tennis.

On the 26th of February, Room 7 had a splendid time playing tennis! James was our tennis teacher for the session. He told us to get into  pairs. I had to be in a group of three because we only had 15 people in our class. Then we all started throwing the ball to our partners softly. After that, James told us to try bouncing the ball with our racquets. We had to try bouncing it on the top of our racquet and then under it. The hardest part of the day was when we had to bounce the ball and use the side of our racquets to hit it back up. We played a game called ‘Around the world’. We versed each other. If we hit the ball and it didn’t go out, we had to run to the other side. I came second in the first game but missed out on the second game. We loved playing tennis with James because we all worked hard. We were all exhausted at the end of the session!

Have you ever played softball?

Learning intention: We are learning to write a recount.
Success criteria: know I can do this when I use blabberize to record a recount about softball.

On 24th of February, the year 6 and the Intermediate softball team had an amazing time at Dunkirk. We walked there quickly so we can have the shady spot. It was my first time participating in sport events at St. Patrick’s School so I didn’t know what to do. The first games began at 10 o’clock. Our game changed throughout the day because we got better as we became more familiar with the rules and more used to the softball ball. I accidentally got hit in the thumb, head and knee, but I continued on even though they hurt. Our whole team enjoyed versing against other schools and because we all tried so hard during the games, we were all exhausted by the end of the day!

I need to get my driver's license so I can race!

Movie marathon

Have you ever watched one hour movies in the morning?

It all started in the morning when I was watching cartoons. When it goes to informercials at 9:35, I swiftly ran into the bedroom, turned on the DVD player and put in the Lion king disc.

Before that, I took a piece of long bread to eat. It tasted like a doughnut without the icing. I ran as haste a cat to the bedroom and watched the Lion king movie. It was weird because Timone the meerkat ate insects instead of meat.

Next, I ejected the Lion king disc when it was finished and put in the Acceleracers DVD and sat on top of the bed covers and watched. One of my favourite realms (racing track portal) was the water realm because there were water tracks for the racers had to accelerate on. The character I liked in the movie was Karma Eiss because her car was fast enough to outrun a gigantic, quick tank called the sweeper. The sweeper was a vehicle that steals accelechargers from human racers and also captures the racer so the drones can turn them into their own allies. It was quite creepy and scary when I heard that.

Then, I watched one of my favourite movies called Balto. He was a wolf that saved a pilot and many children who were sick. It was an interesting movie because it was based on a true story. It was also funny because Balto’s friend Borris accidently ate some washing tablets thinking they were potato chips.

Before that, I grabbed a peanut butter cookie to nibble on while watching the Acceleracers movie. The cookie was tasty and I even found four chocolate chips inside the cookie. “Yum” I said quickly I continued on the Acceleracers movie. It was quite cool because in the metro realm, the racers had to use slick tread tyres to drive on. My second favourite character Nolo Kitano in the movie turned upside down from a drone car. He also had a green moustache accelecharger that created a track instantly.

Later, I went to the special features of the Acceleracers movie and played the micro adventures. One of the adventures was when one of the human racer’s car had a nitrox-3 (turbo) leak from a drone mech. So when he uses his boost his car will explode. It was nerveracking but his friend drove him off the track and the racer in the car escaped by using his EDR device (Emergency driver return) and teleported back to the racers base.

Watching movies was really fun, I wish I could watch more movies during the next school holidays.

WALT use appropriate language features in my recount.

I know I can do this when I use past tense correctly in my writing

My Autobiography

WALT write our autobiography.
A  autobiography is a story about your life.
This is a story about my life.